Today is the day to start thinking about future proofing your Ajax strategy!

Everyone is looking at Ajax as way to bring life to their web application, replace desktop applications, and deliver upon the promise of the web as an application development platform. You and your company should be diving right in and taking advantage of Ajax where and when you can.
Being that Ajax not only builds on top of current web application infrastructure but also is a complete paradigm shift in application development. This means even though developers can utilize web development strategies already in place, such as; J2EE, HTML, etc…, developers will need to built their own Ajax frameworks or rely on 3rdpartys. In this day and age building your own may be necessary but for most people the use of a 3rdparty framework will be appropriate.

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The last two days were just as good as the first. The sessions I attended were well done and there were more giveaways and prizes.

Sessions:

Tuesday’s Night Keynote:

Tuesdays keynote by Chris Wilson I.E lead had all the items of a good keynote: Humor, a good story and very little technical information. At the end of a long day of technical sessions and in an after dinner trance, nothing beats sitting back and being entertained.

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Having attended many conferences as speaker, vendor monkey and plain attendee; todays Ajax Experience was as good as any I have been to.

Venue:

The Westin in South Boston is a great hotel with plenny of parking and excellent food service. Both lunch and dinner were excellent. Food is the defining criteria for a show; good food and drinks = good conference, talks, swag and interaction also matter. The only negative was there were only three electrical outlets in the whole place. With every attendee needing power for laptops this put a premium on positioning ones self near the wall.

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In the XAP project currently in incubation that the Apache Software Foundation (Full disclosure I am a committer on the project), one of the nice features under development in the project is called xModify. xModify allow users to incrementally update client-side XML documents such as XAP’s shadow UI DOM or even the HTML DOM; turning the stateless client into a stateful one.

Just recently while trying to debug and test the xModify feature as well as some new startup functionality, I create a simple RSS reader that allows users to load and unload different RSS feeds with-in a single page. I have put the sample online and written up an explanation of the different pieces of the sample. XAP made the sample very easy to create do to the fact that it handles both the communications to the server and the processing or the modification Read more…

During a recent post about youtube.com going down, I was having a good time reading the comments (Never actually went to the story). Most of the comments were in one of two buckets; “this items is stupid and shouldn’t be on the homepage” (usually in all CAPS), or people trying to come up with oneliners about the situation. Then the post was buried, but why? Yes, youtube came back online, maybe the story wasn’t relevant anymore, but there was over 200 comments on the article, people must have been enjoying it on some level. So what’s more important: the articles or the comments?

In the youtube post, clearly the blog post about youtube going down was not interesting. Everyone just wanted to see the 404 on www.youtube.com. But with almost as many comments as diggs, people were clearly having fun, so in this case I guess the comments won. There are occasions where I do read the article the post links to, but I always read the comments. This isn’t just with Digg, when I go to Slashdot I do the same thing. If the story is even remotely interesting, I always read the comments, whether or not I read the article.

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A recent story about youtube was taken of the homepage probably by people buring it. Here is an article to get it back on the homepage.

Here is the link to the orginal story on digg.

Youtube is down